Hotel on the mountain

"If you need a faster ship than the ones currently on the market, it can't be made in a short time." Charles reminded, "It will take at least a year."

"So, what if you are asked to improve a fast ship?"

"That depends on what the original ship is like. The most important thing is to look at the psychic engine and psychic converter of the ship."

Yetlo nodded and said, "Let's do this for today. It's getting late. Tomorrow, I'll take you around."

After he finished speaking, the group left the Academy. Because the sun sets much later in July, although there is still sunshine now, it is already dinner time.

Charles did not go to the welcome banquet prepared by Yetro for him, but insisted on going to a small wooden house by the lake - this wooden house was built temporarily, and later it was not demolished, so it was left on the south side of Pearl Lake near the wall.

The wooden house has no partitions, just a space at the entrance with simple and necessary things such as a stove, bed, table and chairs. Charles put down the small suitcase and began to sweep the dust from the wooden house, even the gaps between the floor tiles. He had to pick out the hair balls and stones stuck in the gaps before he felt relieved.

When he finished cleaning everything, the sun had set, and the sound of the hunting team members training came from the lakeside - as the number of members increased, they had changed into seven teams, each led by the seven hunting team members who survived at the beginning.

Charles watched quietly for a while, then closed the door, and the moonlight slowly emerged, shining from the center of the lake to the bottom of the door.

Charles stood, stood quietly, staring down at the moonlight coming in from under the door - he finally saw the moonlight again. On a night twenty years ago, he was like this, chatting with his beloved through a door all night.

Charles squatted down, stretched out his hand to gently stroke the invisible moonlight, and the eyes behind the lens were extremely gentle. He touched and touched, as if he touched the fingertips that stretched out from under the door twenty years ago - the gap was so small at that time that it could only accommodate two fingertips touching each other, and the gap was so big at that time that it could allow two hearts filled with love to embrace and kiss passionately.

Charles' eyes changed.

…

The next day, Charles and Jetro came to the tributary connecting Pearl Lake and Hangdeng River. This was probably the middle part of the tributary. There was a large shallow beach. A large number of workers transported building materials to the open space next to it and began to pile into the water.

Master builder Russell stood on the shore, holding his pipe and watching all the construction actions carefully.

Jetro introduced Charles and Russell to each other, and they both bowed politely to each other. Then, Jetro explained, "The project being carried out here is to prepare a trap for the little sea dragon. These workers don't know that they are told that they are going to build a water zoo. Master Russell was specially asked by my father to come here. He is one of us."

After hearing this, Russell puffed on his pipe, squinted his eyes, and said nothing.

"I only know that the body of the sea dragon is very large. Do you have data on the size of the little sea dragon? It is a miracle project to trap it." Charles looked at the workers who were enclosing the land and could already foresee the difficulty of this project.

"Yes, I learned it from a certain channel, and it's trustworthy." Yetro added, "Master Russell has his ability to build a cage in a short time." At this time, Russell interrupted and said, "I came here because the master said a lot of good things for you. I didn't expect that you really run the hotel so well. It seems that Master Yetro has really grown up." Yetro smiled indifferently and responded politely, "I will need to ask you to help me design a few more buildings later. I think only you can do it." Russell looked nonchalant and blew a few smoke rings without saying anything. Yetro stretched out his hand and gestured to lead the way. He led Charles forward for a while, bypassed the woods and made several turns, and finally saw an area surrounded by wooden walls on a flat river bank - just like the means of enclosure at Pearl Lake - they entered from a small door, and Charles saw a huge ship wreckage lying on the wide river bank at a glance. The wreckage of the ship was covered with water plants and shells, and there were a lot of holes in the hull, as if it had been forcibly broken open. Charles saw that there were very deep drag marks on the side of the wreckage near the water, as if it was directly pulled ashore. He walked to the riverside and looked down into the water. He vaguely found that there seemed to be deep footprints in the sand under the water. The footprints were densely packed, like the flippers of a giant creature.

But Charles said nothing. He knew that his current task was to find something useful from the sunken ship. Such a huge ship could not be repaired in the short term, not to mention that such a large ship that could be used for ocean voyages was not suitable for attracting small sea dragons.

Jetro came over and said to him: "This is the ship of His Royal Highness Orhan, the third prince, which was sunk by me. I heard that his ship is the fastest in the empire at present. I wonder if you have any way to make it faster."

"Yes." Charles replied, "This ship is called 'Seven Hills', and the complete name should be 'Seven Hills Experimental Type'-one, it is not the fastest ship in the empire." Charles turned his head and said meaningfully: "The king always has the best things."

Jetro did not think deeply about the connotation of this sentence, and only listened to Charles continue: "Now I need to go in and see if its psychic equipment can still operate. If it can, we only need to build a smaller ship." The boat is just fine - when running at full power, its speed is absolutely simple and rough, and there is no problem in walking the sea dragon in a straight line. "

"What about the curve?"

"Have you ever seen an arrow shot out that can turn?"

"Charles, I need it to turn."

Charles looked at the serious-faced Jetro through the lenses and smiled: "If I guessed correctly, the sea dragon should have been chasing it all the way in from the sea. The vast river surface is completely curved, allowing ships to maintain high speed and turn into the lake. It's just that the ship cannot escape when the trap is introduced. But isn't this necessary? What if the ship turns and slips away in front of the trap, and the little sea dragon also slips away? It is the least costly thing to do. . Because it will cost a lot of money and time to build a boat that can maintain high speeds and turn corners.”

After hearing this, Jetro responded in a low voice: "When the ship is about to enter the trap, someone will open a water gate to let the ship pass, but after the water gate is a curved lake channel. It must turn, otherwise it will be like that Hitting the shore at speed is a dead end - and I will be on that ship."

Surprise, shame, displeasure and other emotions surged into Charles's heart at the same time. He stared at Jetro for a while before looking away, chuckled and said, "I understand. After I finish checking, I I will give you a list of what you need to purchase. Don’t worry, the arrow will be deflected.”

"Thank you." Jetro smiled sincerely and was about to turn around and leave, "If you need anything, tell the members of the hunting team here. I also want to go to the hotel and try to get those financial backers to spend more. ”

Jetro waved his hand and left. Charles, who was walking into the cabin, looked back at him, with no emotion on his calm face.